Former School Infrastructure NSW CEO Anthony Manning.

ICAC to probe former School Infrastructure NSW boss

The state’s powerful anti-corruption body is investigating allegations bureaucrats from School Infrastructure awarded lucrative contracts to friends and business associates.

  • Lucy Carroll

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Thanh Whittam with her three children at her home in Matraville.

Employers want workers back in the office. How do parents of young children cope?

As more families have both parents working full-time and employers impose return-to-office policies,a new report recommends an overhaul of outside school hours care.

  • Lucy Carroll
Shore has introduced a new laptop policy which is partly driven by concerns that boys are being distracted.

The battle between Shore school and its former headmaster

Tim Petterson is alleging a breach of employment contract,but the institution says concerns were raised about his “performance and conduct” before he was dismissed in 2022.

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Schools HSC

Revealed:The state’s most improved schools in the HSC

The NSW Education Department has identified 24 schools as the most improved in lifting band 4,5 and 6 results over the past eight years.

  • Lucy Carroll
The demographic of pupils attending Ascham School in Edgecliff has changed.

Staffer at top Sydney private girls’ school charged over alleged tech theft

The head of Ascham School’s IT department allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of computers and sold the equipment on an online marketplace.

  • Lucy Carroll andPerry Duffin
Sydney Boys High School

The ‘fully funded’ Sydney selective school desperate for donations

One of Sydney’s top-performing public schools will seek to cut costs and ask parents to pay more after its budget was slashed.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris
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NSW will run a trial year 1 numeracy screening check in 150 schools from next term.

Thousands of NSW primary school students to sit new mathematics test

The teacher-run 15-minute test will check students’ maths skills in counting,ordering numbers and simple addition and subtraction.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris
Chatswood Public is among the northern Sydney schools to have recently received an upgrade.

These north shore schools have been shelved but thousands of new homes are coming

Plans for an education precinct at St Leonards and a new Chatswood public primary school were earmarked under the former government.

  • Lucy Carroll
Students protesting at Granville Boys High School on Wednesday.

Students protest at Sydney school after Muslim staffer told to work from home

Granville Boys High student support officer Sheikh Wesam Charkawi was ordered to remove social media posts where he downplayed antisemitic comments made by two Sydney nurses.

  • Lucy Carroll andChristopher Harris
Cammeray mother Amanda Smythe has concerns about a lack of bus services for school kids including her daughter.

Forty-minute waits,700-metre queues:Bus chaos causes long commutes in Sydney’s north

Schoolchildren and parents are among commuters feeling the pain at bus stops during morning peaks as bendy buses are out of action.

  • Matt O'Sullivan andLucy Carroll